Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-03-25
FACT AND FANCY.

Hay 10 Only 81 ION III '~iipu9 ''iN8 Vi %''
yada.
Holsters are now leing caught in Monetary
bay California.
A quartet Of Senaca Indians are giving con
certs In New York
A colony o! Quakers is expected 10 locate In
Nevada county, California.
Many cattle are dying in the cattle ranches
OF Victoria, British Columbia
A flock Of Llue-birds put in an appearance
at Port Jeryis, \. Y. Thursday.
The state jute factory al San Quentin, Gal,
returned 81, 500 profits last year.
Hunters complain Of the scarcity OF deer In
| the mountains near Santa Rosa Cal
Rabbit hunting by moonlight is now INDUCED
| I'm by ranchers in the vicinity OF Lexington,
Three thousand rats were killed during
recent rat-hunt by the citizens OF Millersburg,
Ohio
II is thought that Elko county, Nevada,
will IN a year pay out $4,000 in rabbit-sca'p
bounties.
Reno, New, complains that the sawdust In
TrucAee river has produced much disease IL
that town.
There are three thousand men employed IN
drift mining in California and the product Is
IS, 600 O0J year.
Gail Hamilton SAYS that "a woman OF 20
should be as much ashamed OF being dyspeptic
as of being drunk"
During the year 1856 G,7l7 90 in fares
were collected by the street railroad compa-
MES in Philadelphia.
1t + reported that Californian, who has
band Of sheep in Lake county, oregon iosl
one thousand head last week
Oregon The destructive animals pay noctru-
!, nal visits to haystacks in large droves, wherc
the hunters lay in wait for them
Arrangements are being made in San Diego,
Cal. to bring out colony OF one Hundred
families from the south of Ireland.
Editors in ali parts of the country are SAID
: To be amplifying their baskets 10 acconlno-
date an expected rush OF spring poetry.
Y Mention is made Of the fact that in the min
, ing-cxchange in Boston on receht week uay
n not single share Of stock was boughto or soid'
A woman at Santa Cruz, Call has sued her
husband for divorce the chic! ground Tor com
plant being that he neglected 10 say grace al
his meals
. A domestic goose wa; Eillel 10y gentleman
D living on Cache creek Lake county, Cali'"r-
! mia. recently, and in It's crop was found large
# quantity of gold dust
@ "Isn't INV poetry of high orderr cxclaim-
+. ed the indignant poet at is, indeed" re-
pled the editor, who remembered seeing LIS
wife paperng the garnet with IT,
There Is considerable stir among Insurance
= men at Carson, New, over the passage of a bill
Z comnelling them to pay the full face Of poll
# cy on total losses 1t passed tue house uhaui-
, mously.
;, 4 Georgia mail carrier carried jug OF
p, whisky with him and peddled TIE stun ou'
l. along his route believing that the government
re which he represented had the best interests OF
s. the masses at heart.
There is at present good supply of snow In
~ the Sierras aud it is believed that unless there
l. shall be season OF warm rains early In the
sprng there viii be no scarcity O! water 10
Carson river next summer.
W Sam Jones saws that more social scandals
nj are originated IN church gossip than anywhere
ne else, and that the Lord Will forgive sinner
e. ten times as quick as a scandalmonger'
Samuel has probably felt the sting
. one of the old milcs,ones which once cx.
tended along The OLD Boston road IN 4 series
y from New York through the New England
states To Boston will stand on the Bowcry. 1t
~ bears the inscriptions "One mile from the
st City Hall"
a new arrangement has been added TO the
chestnut beln Now when the bell Is struck
a miniature rat runs across the breast oil the
wearcr and stops in full view OF the victim.
eu TO make it more effective the word rats" is
IL Inscribed on the rat.
e. Gov. Bob Taylor, Of Tennessee, once had a
he man draw a revolver on him and give him one
minute to pay. Bob did his praying in thir-
" seconds, and had the other thirty in which
~ 10 dodgd q bullet, get hold OF the weapon and
lick the Teller half TO death.
nc "a man has insulted me-" exclaimed lady
who had come to the ball in an extremely de-
collete dress, land / want redress" You
,n certainly DO replied her brute OF a husband,
who didn't approve Of his wife's taste in dress.
Redress would improve several ladies here"
According to Prof Baird fish has no ma
turity. and there is nothing 10 prevent II from
living indefinitely and growing continually.
a 4 pike living in Russia dates back in age TO
the fifteenth century. In the royal aquarium
~ al st. Petersburg are fish that have been there
40 years.
For wears New Workers have been contribut-
Ing to the support Of ''little colored church,
supposed to exist in their midst. An nvcsii-
ne CATION showed the church was a myth, and
the suggestions pastor, who has been living
on their bounty, has been sent TO the island
for three months.
A chorus-grl at the Metropolitan opera
" house, New York, can not get married, 1t Is
stated, unless she gives the manager at least
two weeks notice, otherwise her contract be-
d. comes null. 1t is further stated that the
a. manager has not been known TO withhold his
=, assent in any case.
The man who knows something ard who
knows that he knows something, is happy
man; the man who knows nothing and who
nj knows that he knows nothing, is comparative
ly happy: but the man who knows nothing,
but who don't know that he knows nothing,
is wretched fool
An American has bought the land over the
famous ''bue grotto' of Capri and claims
70. that tho purio.ffV helonos n him A lawsuit